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In summer 2007, leaf and stem rot of ice plants was found in a hydroponic greenhouse in Japan. The causal agent was a fungus identified as Choanephora cucurbitarum (Berkeley & Ravenel) Thaxter, based on pathogenicity, morphology, mating tests, and sequence analysis of the ribosomal DNA ITS region.
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S. Kagiwada and Y. Kayano contributed equally to this work.
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Kagiwada, S., Kayano, Y., Hoshi, H. et al. First report of Choanephora rot of ice plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum) caused by Choanephora cucurbitarum in Japan. J Gen Plant Pathol 76, 345–347 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10327-010-0249-y
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